This plush art was launched with a highly successful Kickstarter campaign last year.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/474677063/banjo-the-unicorgi-plush?ref=shop_home_active_3
Banjo and his sister Luna have found their way to new forever homes.....
where they enjoy going on adventures.
I was a backer of the Kickstarter.. and lucky to escort my Banjo....
on his adventure in France!
Starting with the comics festival at Angouleme...
2017 was the 10th anniversary of the festival's official mascot... "le Fauve"
art by Louis Trondheim (who was the Angouleme Grand Prix winner in 2006)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angoul%C3%AAme_International_Comics_Festival
This transit map of the city shows some local landmarks.
The "New York" tent....
Inside the tent...
The Museum of Angouleme...
One of the treasures of the museum... this Celtic helmet
A painting of the City of Angouleme as seen from the river...
A wall of paintings of artists and their studios...
The central Angouleme "Halle" market building..
Fruit, flower, meat, seafood and cheese stalls inside the Halle...
A popular cafe...
Near the city center and "Hotel de ville"...
Panel from the art display...
After Angouleme... it was on to Paris!
Metro station..
Notre Dame...
Grande Gallerie of Evolution... (Natural History Museum)
The Narwhal exhibit includes a history of unicorns .. in myth and legend!
The Menagerie (zoo) at the Jardin des Plantes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9nagerie_du_Jardin_des_plantes
Hippo statues outside the Rotunda --- historical building at the zoo.
Currently the zoo houses a frisky red panda!
And this stunning Big Cats house -- built in the 1930s!
A Metro ride...
to this famous station!
And a visit to the Arts and Metiers (arts and measures) museum...
This was a random unicorn poster on a Paris city street!
Paris has flower shops on almost every corner!
Window shopping... at Shakespeare and Company bookstore!
Animated winter village in the window of a ski supplies shop...
The Odyssey ... a Star Wars themed crepe cafe!
https://www.yelp.com/biz/odyssey-paris-2
More pop Culture influence --- these period costumed super heroes...
Here's a link with more from the "Super Flemish" series by photographer Sacha Goldberger
http://mymodernmet.com/pop-culture-characters-take-exquisite-flemish-portraits
At the Paris Gare Austerlitz train station...
Another Metro trip... to the French National Library..
These globes where built in the 1680s as a gift for King Louis the XIV!
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/louis-xivs-globes
Paris is a City of arts and science...
Here's the street where Radium was discovered!
The School of Physics...
Where Pierre Curie taught classes....
On the way to a special museum nearby...
The Musee Curie! It's inside the Radium Institute ... near Madame Curie's office and laboratory!
http://musee.curie.fr/
Cool new artwork of the Curie family members... Pierre, Marie and their daughters Irene and Eve.. by contemporary artist Christian Guemy (aka C215)
http://www.streetartbio.com/c215
Behind the museum, is Marie Curie's garden....
Here's a famous photo of her. She often stood at this very spot, overlooking the garden, with her personal laboratory and office through the door behind her...
More photos of the interior of Musee Curie.. and other Paris museums.. on this 2015 post from the blog:
http://stuartngbooks.blogspot.com/2015/02/france-2015-rodin-museum-musee-curie.html
Sculpture of Marie and Pierre Curie ...
Pierre and Marie Curie are buried at the nearby Pantheon -- historical home to the heroes of France.
If you look close.. you can see the Eiffel Tower above Banjo's ear....
Maybe he'll get closer next trip!
For tour posts with other plush art pals.. check out these links:
Huggable Koi in Paris and Bordeaux:
Martin "Marty" Mouse
More on Marty:
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